Update on Me, and my day in A&E!

Unfortunately life has got a bit out control recently. I found research and my health was being too much of an obsession, so I had to take a step back.

However I'm now lying in bed in agony after my back has failed me once again. I have terrible sciatica pain all down my left leg.

I did the hoovering Tuesday which seemed to start off the pain, although it had been niggling at me for quite a few weeks.

Then wednesday as I went downstairs I put the wrong foot first on the bottom. The pain shot through me like a lightening bolt, the poor cats thought I'd gone crazy as I screamed down the house. It went all down my left leg and when my foot went dead I knew I had to do something.

I've actually got quite a high threshold for pain believe it or not. As most of you can probably sympathise, when you go to to the doctors for years and get no where, you tend to get a thicker skin for pain after just being told to put up with it.

I rang a friend who convinced me I needed to go to A&E, so she took me. To my surprise I was actually seen quite quickly by a nurse, but then I spent the rest of the day waiting for doctors, which couldn't suggest anything except more pain killers.

I must have taken everything possible codeine, diclofenac, diazepam, tymerol (no idea how to spell) i think there were a couple more that i cant remember, plus a non oral one as well! But I didn't care I just wanted the pain to go, but it didn't.

They then gave me morphine, which took about 2 hours to kick in. By which point they had decided to get the physio to see me. Of course I was doped up to the nines, and they were trying to get me to walk. I almost fainted, due to the heat of the tiny room i was in, when i first stood up. But with the physios persistence this time I felt the morphine had worked so could walk a little.

So then basically I got discharged with nobody actually doing anything. Nobody even had a look a my back, no X-rays were taken because apparently they wouldn't have shown up anything, the doctor said an MRI scan was needed but I had to wait to be referred to by my own gp! The physios said they wouldn't touch me as I was in too much pain! And no one at all even asked if I have any other medical conditions or if I'm on any other medication so god knows how its affected my t3 treatment.

So I got no where, some part of me wishes I'd stayed at home. Because after my little bit of movement the morphine properly kicked in and was violently sick for hours. Of course I had not eaten all day so that probably hadn't helped.

My future mother in law booked an oestopath to come round the next day, which did help a lot, especially with the leg pain but the back pain was still terrible. He was do much more help than the hospital tho and explained I had trapped my sciatic nerve due to my muscles in my lower back tensing. I needed to ice it until the inflammation reduced.

At present it has eased slightly, but I'm still taking quite a few painkillers so its hard to know if it's working or not. Sitting is still a definite no no, but I can stand fairly comfortably (once I'm up that is) It just wears you out standing all the time. Hence why I need a lie down in the day to rest.

In other relatively good but frustrating news my doc has agreed to continue my t3 treatment for another 4months. Obviously that's good, however the stupid thing is he still doesn't agreed that I've got a thyroid problem!!! Not that I'm complaining, I am grateful for the tablets, I really don't know where I'd be without them, it's just I don't understand his logic.

Last time I went to the pharmacy, the pharmacist told me I shouldn't be paying for my prescription as its thyroid medication, and to ask my gp for a form to get it free.

So I did this, and he laughed in my face! To be honest I just don't think he knew what to say. He stuttered that it's only free for people with hypothyroidism. Which apparently I don't have, even tho I have all the classic symptoms AND I feel better on thyroid meds?! Surely if I wasn't hypothyroid I would feel worse on extra thyroid hormones??

Obviously not it would appear! By this point he had put my back up so I told him "that I was not classified hypothyroid in numerical terms, but I believed I had hypothyroidism." to which he said nothing! So just thanked my lucky stars for the prescription.

The other update I have is on my boyfriend who I believe had adrenal problems. He luckily had managed to get a visit to the endo, she seemed very good. Took lots of blood before hand so we could discuss results when we were there. She said his cortisol levels were fine, don't know what as I was too scared to ask after last time at the doctors. But the only thing that showed up was low vit D and Calcium. To be honest I wasn't surprised by this, as the week before the appointment the weather had been glorious and I had noticed a vast improvement in him. She said she would write to his gp to give him a script for vit d and cal, and a referral to the ent for his dizziness.That was a month ago. We got a letter from his doctors surgery this week. He'd already booked and had an appointment last week! Shows how efficient our surgery is! And in the appointment the doctor didn't even mention the ENT referral! Unfortunately my boyfriend didn't realise the referral would have to come from the gp so never asked about it. So I spent this week chasing up about the referal cos he's now too stressed to do it and is almost giving up.

But at least we got the script for the vit d and cal right? Well that was a joke. I told him to ask for the highest dose possible thinking 25,000 or 50,000 IU. But nope he got a script for 400iu!!!! I was absolutely disgusted. How they could say that's the highest dose when I know somebody on here posted a question and said her strength for the very same tablets (Adcel I think) was 800iu! Even that I don't think is really going to touch a deficiency, maintenance dose maybe, but not for somebody who is 33 and needs to be a min of 75. Fuming I was! So anyway he's taking his 400 a day until the 5000 I've just ordered off amazon turn up!

Sorry to have gone on for sooo long, but I must admit writing this has taken my mind off the pain.